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Fast Forward John Kerry Seeks To Keep Peace Talks Alive
Secretary of State John Kerry broke from his travel schedule for the second time in a week to rush back to the Middle East on Monday to try to salvage Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The U.S.-brokered negotiations faced a crisis at the weekend when Israel, saying it was seeking a Palestinian commitment to continue negotiations beyond…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson Gets OK To Expand Right Wing Israel Media Empire
A Jerusalem court approved the sale of the right-wing newspaper Makor Rishon and the NRG news website to Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom company. Adelson bid nearly $5 million for the purchase of both properties, which also includes the recently defunct daily Maariv newspaper. Israel Hayom also will employ 95 percent of Makor Rishon and NRG…
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Fast Forward Ehud Olmert Convicted in 6-Figure ‘Holyland’ Bribery Case
An Israeli court convicted former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Monday of accepting a six-figure sum in bribes linked to a real-estate deal, probably ending any prospects of a political comeback. Olmert, a centrist credited internationally with working towards a peace settlement with the Palestinians, had denied wrongdoing in the Holyland apartment complex deal, which…
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Israel News Jewish Charities Grow Huge on Cash From Government — Donors Give to Israel
How can Jewish charities afford to spend so much money on Israel? It doesn’t hurt that federal, state and local governments in the United States spend billions subsidizing many of the other things the charities do. Israel-related not-for-profit organizations get more contributions than any other type of Jewish agency, as the Forward reported last week….
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Opinion Hillel Balances Donors and Students on Campus
Jay Michaelson’s recent column in these pages, “Only One Way to Change Hillel: Leave,” reveals a number of damaging yet popular misconceptions about the Hillel world and the role of donors in dictating the content of our programming. Jay, since you referred to my own recent essay here, “The Hillel Kids are All Right,” I’m…
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Israel News Inside University of Michigan’s Israel Divestment Debate
Pro-Palestinian students got trounced on an Israel-related stock divestment vote recently at the University of Michigan. The student government’s 25 to 9 vote against their proposal wasn’t even close. Yet Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the student group that put forth the proposal, declared the defeat a terrific victory. And they may be right….
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Paris Aliyah Fair Amid Spate of Anti-Semitic Incidents
Thousands of French Jews attended an information fair in Paris about moving to Israel. Sunday’s fair, organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and the World Zionist Organization, offered information from representatives of many Israeli organizations and institutions, including government ministries. The Drancy-based Bureau for…
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Fast Forward U.S. Court: Hamas Attack Victims Cannot Seize Iranian Relics as Restitution
Victims of a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem cannot seize Persian antiquities on display in the United States as restitution, a federal judge ruled. In his decision Friday, Judge Robert Gettleman of the U.S. District Court in Chicago said the items could not be seized for the victims’ families since it was unclear whether the…
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